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If there’s one thing I love more than writing, it’s hearing what you think about my characters and stories. It gets lonely sitting at my computer writing all day, so feel free to look around and drop me a line. I’ll use any excuse to stop what I’m doing to chat!

Featured Books

Featured Books

Attainable digitally and in paperback

“I can’t get CeCe and Carl’s love story out of my head. It is such a beautiful story. Can you say, book hangover.” -Advance Reader “September”

“I’m sure we’ve all been put in a situation where we just didn’t quite fit in and acceptance was questionable. You could probably change the names of some of these characters to fit people you know. Ruby doesn’t give up and Cooper doesn’t either. Can’t wait to see what plays out in the next book…” 5⭐Amazon Review of “June”Judy

Meet Ruby!

Ruby Tellison has a whole lot on her plate.

After living a privileged life of private schools, exclusive clubs and unlimited shopping sprees, she finds herself penniless and on her own. Her family fortune is lost amid a scandal involving her father’s business dealings, and her acceptance to Harvard Law School hangs in the balance. If she can’t find a way to fund her education on her own, she won’t be able to live her dream of becoming a high-powered attorney.

The only place Ruby knows to go to is Bluff’s Cove, a tiny vacation town in Cape Cod, the spot where her family owned a second home before everything went wrong. There’s a bar on the beach called “The Hut”, and rumor has it that the employees pocket a huge amount of cash each summer season. Ruby sets her mind on getting a job there to make up the shortfall so that she can cover her tuition and attend school in the fall. Having no real work experience is the obstacle she knows she’ll need to overcome.

What Ruby doesn’t expect is to lose her heart. Once she meets Cooper, she’s swept up into a summer romance that leaves her forever changed and questioning the only thing she thought she knew for sure…

Meet Ruby!

Ruby Tellison has a whole lot on her plate.

After living a privileged life of private schools, exclusive clubs and unlimited shopping sprees, she finds herself penniless and on her own. Her family fortune is lost amid a scandal involving her father’s business dealings, and her acceptance to Harvard Law School hangs in the balance. If she can’t find a way to fund her education on her own, she won’t be able to live her dream of becoming a high-powered attorney.

The only place Ruby knows to go to is Bluff’s Cove, a tiny vacation town in Cape Cod, the spot where her family owned a second home before everything went wrong. There’s a bar on the beach called “The Hut”, and rumor has it that the employees pocket a huge amount of cash each summer season. Ruby sets her mind on getting a job there to make up the shortfall so that she can cover her tuition and attend school in the fall. Having no real work experience is the obstacle she knows she’ll need to overcome.

What Ruby doesn’t expect is to lose her heart. Once she meets Cooper, she’s swept up into a summer romance that leaves her forever changed and questioning the only thing she thought she knew for sure…

My Blog

All of my books begin with the seed of an idea. For everything I’ve written up to this point, the research was more casual. I would visit a place and imagine my characters there. But for the historical novel I’m currently working on, “I Will Find You”, the...

My all-time favorite book as a child was Madeline L’Engle’s “A Wrinkle in Time”. I can remember sitting up in my bed, late into the night, book propped up on my knees, flashlight in hand against the “lights out” policy set out by my parents after 9pm, having been...

Readers always ask me if it's difficult to write sex scenes. Short answer: no. But that doesn't mean it's not a challenge! When I write about younger characters, like Ruby and Cooper, I want the emotion between them to reflect their age. The physicality may be a...